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Tuesday 21 October 2025 Leading Together » ELIA Executive Director Maria Hansen reflects on the ELIA Leadership Symposium in Geneva, celebrating the ELIA network’s c...
Tuesday 14 October 2025 Call for New PIE Working Group Members » Are you interested in driving collaboration, exchanging insights, and supporting practical approaches to internationalisat...
Tuesday 14 October 2025 ELIA EDI Community Meeting 2026: Call for Contributions » We are excited to announce that ELIA's EDI Community Hub 2026 will be hosted by Escola Superior de Música de Catal...
Tuesday 14 October 2025 Survey: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion » In recent years, the EDI Working Group has worked to advance Equity, Diversity, and Inclusivity across our institutions...
Monday 13 October 2025 Host the ELIA Leadership Symposium 2027 » ELIA Leadership Symposium 2027: Call for Nominations for Venues ELIA is looking for its next host for the ELIA Leaders...
7 hours ago Unlocking Creativity: Key Skills for the Future » ELIA Head of Programmes Barbara Revelli reports back from the ELIA Leadership Symposium in Geneva. In this artic...
9 hours ago ELIA X MONDIACULT 2025 » Photo taken at Creative Skills Week 2025 by Štěpán Filip. From 29 September to 1 October, Barcelona hosted the UNESCO W...
12 hours ago Culture as the Connective Tissue: ELIA at the World Cities Culture Summit and EIT Cities and Regions » Anastasia Stamoglou, ELIA’s EU Policy & Research Trainee, together with Gaby Muñiz, ELIA’s Social Media and Content Sp...
Monday 20 October 2025 Announcing UAxEU - UkrAinian cultural eXchange with European Union » ELIA is proud to have been selected to coordinate one of four largescale projects contracted under Creative Europe’s cal...
Thursday 9 October 2025 Welcome Our Newest Member: Dar al-Kalima University (DAK) » We are proud to introduce our newest member: Dar al-Kalima University (DAK), Bethlehem, Palestine. Dar al-Kalima...
Tuesday 16 September 2025 ELIA Contributes to UNESCO MONDIACULT 2025 » We are delighted to announce ELIA’s involvement in the lead-up to UNESCO’s World Conference on Cultural Policies and Sust...
Tuesday 16 September 2025 Climate Neutral Buildings for Future-Proof Cities » The ELIA Green team wants to share the excellent news that A-Lab, the building where ELIA’s office is located, is in the f...
Tuesday 16 September 2025 A New Term » EDI Platform Meeting 2024. Photo by Nendre Zilinskaite. ELIA Executive Director Maria Hansen shares the start of the...
Friday 12 September 2025 Registrations Open for ELIA x CAN Webinar » All are invited to join this open online conversation based on From Margins to Masterpieces: Charting Pathways to Strengt...
Tuesday 2 September 2025 Call for Students: Join Us at the ELIA Leadership Symposium 2025 » Photo: Tom Cox. ELIA Leadership Symposium 2023, Manchester. Pictured: Sumithreyi Sivapalan, Student Arts Practitioner, Man...
Monday 18 August 2025 ELIA Welcomes Newest Member: University of Agder (UiA) » We are delighted to welcome our newest member: The Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Agder (UiA). Fo...
Tuesday 12 August 2025 Participate in the CSW2025 Online Programme » Registration for Online Participation in Creative Skills Week 2025 (CSW2025) now open! You can now register...
Monday 4 August 2025 Join ELIA as Our Next Events Intern! » Are you interested in developing online, hybrid, and in-person events for the higher arts education sector? Would you like...
Monday 4 August 2025 ARA’s Collective Response to Horizon Europe 2028–2034 Proposal » As part of the Artistic Research Alliance (ARA), ELIA welcomes the doubling of the budget of Horizon Europe for the peri...
Wednesday 23 July 2025 ELIA Resists Threats to Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity across Higher Arts Education » 23 July, 2025 ELIA POSITION PAPER ELIA is alarmed by the growing backlash and extensive restriction...
Tuesday 22 July 2025 Headlines from the EU Budget Proposal 2028-2034 » What the European Commission’s €2 trillion budget proposal for 2028-2034 could mean for the higher arts education communit...
Tuesday 22 July 2025 One More Before Summer Break » ELIA Executive Director Maria Hansen shares one last update before the summer break, with the recent EU Budget proposal fo...
Monday 21 July 2025 A Day with the Voices of Arts & Ecology » Theodoros Dimitrios Vougioukas, ELIA-ECHO Green Team intern, shares his insights from the first in-person Arts &a...
Wednesday 9 July 2025 Climate Issues Are Personal » Gaby Muñiz reports back from the soft launch of the Platform Zuid on 1 July 2025 in Rotterdam. Read how the event, the pla...
Wednesday 25 June 2025 The Strategic Dialogue on the European Creative Economy in Brussels » On Wednesday, ELIA Marketing and Communications Manager, Derville Quigley represented ELIA at The Strategic Dialogue on t...
Wednesday 25 June 2025 Learning, Listening, and Leading: ELIA in Motion this June » Photo: Maria Hansen, ELIA Executive Director, member visit to Berklee Valencia ELIA Executive Director Maria Hansen r...
Wednesday 25 June 2025 UAx Day in Oslo: Reflecting & Connecting » On 17 June, just ahead of the ELIA Academy 2025 in Oslo, the UAx Platform hosted its fifth UAx Day at Kristiania Univ...
Tuesday 24 June 2025 Welcoming Our New Member: Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli » We are pleased to welcome the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli (Naples Academy of Fine Arts) to ELIA! Founded in...
Tuesday 24 June 2025 Warm welcome to our new member: HAWK » We are delighted to welcome HAWK Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst, the University of Applied Sciences and...
Monday 23 June 2025 Life-Integrated Learning at ELIA Academy 2025 » We wrapped up ELIA Academy 2025 with a collective reflection on reimagining higher arts education through the len...
Monday 23 June 2025 Participate in the ELIA Emerging Artists Showcase 2025 » The ELIA Emerging Artists Showcase 2025 is now open for submissions! Following an overwhel...
Thursday 12 June 2025 Taking Home from PIE Annual Meeting 2025 » The warmth of Barcelona and the energy of international peers created the perfect setting for the PIE Annual Meeting 2025...
Thursday 12 June 2025 Host the ELIA Academy 2027 » ELIA Academy 2027: Call for Nominations for Venues ELIA is looking for its next host for the 13th ELIA...
Wednesday 28 May 2025 Registrations Open for Creative Skills Week 2025 » Registrations for Creative Skills Week 2025 (CSW2025) are now open! Join us in Prague (and online) to collabo...
Wednesday 21 May 2025 Positive Signals at EU Level » Photo: ELIA representative board member Alexander Damianisch presents his poster at the SAR Conference ELIA Exec...
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